We drove on to our next house, Clevedon Court, and found one of the best wild-camping sites yet, a few miles from the house, up by a park on the coastal path. Quiet, beautiful, in a good neighborhood too--mansions overlooking Ladye Bay and the Bristol Channel.
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| Ladye Bay, low tide, looking toward Clevedon Pier |
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| Across the Channel, a bit of Cardiff and Wales, I think |
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| Low tide pebble beach; hours later this will be under 20 feet of water |
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| Clevedon Pier |
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Very serious tides here; in the spring people actually surf the tidal bores...going
on for miles and miles I suppose; Bristol is at the end of the Channel, and all
this gives rise to the expression "Ship shape and Bristol fashion"; before 1805,
when the first "floating dock" was constructed, ships docking at Bristol could
be on their sides at low tide; and everything had better be securely fastened... |
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| And I was there |
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| Next morning, tide coming in |
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| The beach pretty much gone |
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| Fishermen (-persons) like tides |
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